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Some bosses are just terrible. Whether its a final boss thats to easy or the first boss that will kill you in one shot.
I hated thed final boss in mass effect. Way to easy. even on hard.

I've had some pretty bad bosses. Mostly, they were just those types that hate their job, so they treat all their employees like dirt. Had one so bad, he got asked to leave by corporate before they fired him.

Ugh, Reflux in Rayman 3. Once he becomes huge and grows wings, he just becomes a pain in the ass to deal with because you have to kill him with this piece-of-gak plane that moves about as fast as an arthritic snail and has a gun that apparently shoots gentle puffs of air.

Platuan4th wrote:I've had some pretty bad bosses. Mostly, they were just those types that hate their job, so they treat all their employees like dirt. Had one so bad, he got asked to leave by corporate before they fired him.

Lol.

Gaming wise, I'd go for the Zelda bosses. You can never just hit them with your sword and hope for the best....

I think the bosses in LoZ: Ocarina of Time were fun. Phantom Ganon was the most annoying piece of gak though.

Avatar of Khaine in DoW2... Insta-kills everything, obscene amount of health. Took a good while to kill.

I had tons of trouble with all the bosses in Megaman X, until I figured out that they were really easy if you fought them in a certain order (usually starting with the Ice Penguin guy) and used the weapons on them that were their weaknesses.

Bosses from any of the Megaman games were pretty hard actually. I don't know if that makes them the worst, as they were cool and I liked the game...but I struggled to beat them.

Hordini wrote:I had tons of trouble with all the bosses in Megaman X, until I figured out that they were really easy if you fought them in a certain order (usually starting with the Ice Penguin guy) and used the weapons on them that were their weaknesses.

It's like you'd never played a Megaman game before this, ever.

I don't mean to be insulting, but that's always been the way it's worked since the original Rockman.

Last Remnant - Absolute Conqueror - its a crap shoot if he wants to just instakill everyone in a group. O it looks like your winning bam, maybe next time dork go suck down another mountain dew.

Mad Rabbit wrote:Avatar of Khaine in DoW2... Insta-kills everything, obscene amount of health. Took a good while to kill.

The Avatar is weakass. I killed it with a plasma cannon Devastator squad and a dreadnought.

Platuan4th wrote:

Hordini wrote:I had tons of trouble with all the bosses in Megaman X, until I figured out that they were really easy if you fought them in a certain order (usually starting with the Ice Penguin guy) and used the weapons on them that were their weaknesses.

It's like you'd never played a Megaman game before this, ever.

I don't mean to be insulting, but that's always been the way it's worked since the original Rockman.

Oh no, I figured it out retroactively. I felt kind of silly, becuase I had played plenty of Megaman games before. The problem is, I had never actually beaten another Megaman boss before Megaman X (although one time I almost beat Skullman - that was frustrating). To be fair, I was just a little guy for the early Megaman games and my video game skills were still being developed. At that age, if I even got to the boss at the end of the level, I felt like I'd accomplished something. I remember being annihilated by Pharaohman, usually in like a minute or less since I had so little health by the time I actually reached him.

I'm sure if I went back and played the old Megaman games now, I'd probably plow straight through them. At the time (we're talking Kindergarten or First Grade probably), I found them very challenging. Not knowing the "trick" made them nearly impossible.

I still loved them though.

Platuan4th wrote:I've had some pretty bad bosses. Mostly, they were just those types that hate their job, so they treat all their employees like dirt. Had one so bad, he got asked to leave by corporate before they fired him.

I feel your pain!

The last boss in Legendary.Well when I say boss I mean bunch of soldiers and invisble werewolves.It was stupid because even though the it was semi-hard(finished it in about 10 hours on normal,yet I did take alot of breaks)the last boss is man behined glass.You had to blow up 3 generators while fighting off people and werewolves,and in the end you don't even get to kill him a griffon does IIRC.

The Dahaka from Prince of Persia: Angst Mode On. My God... I couldn't beat him without cheating. He's fine when you're first fighting him, but if you don't kill him quick enough he starts jumping around the level like a melon-fether, and you just can't get him.

Another annoying terrible boss was the boss in Elite Force. Probably has the most health of any boss in any game, and also spawns the toughest enemies in the game. It's like a half-hour non-stop fight... with a time limit!!!!!!

Oh man. I just remembered.

Duriel from Diablo II.

What the feth were the developers smoking when they thought of that? Was he some kind of April Fool's joke? How am I supposed to beat that bastard with my summoning Necromancer? What good are my mighty skeleton warriors when there are no bodies around and no way to leave the arena to find some?

And his Holy Freeze aura. Oh God, that was horrible. My barbarian didn't stand a chance. Neither did my poor paladin, even though I had level 10 Resist Cold and a shield with three normal sapphires in it.

The final boss of Fire Warrior. It had broken hit boxes, could only be killed when firing besides the tip of the staff and it had these instant-death attacks.

The last boss scenario of Saints Row 2 is also horrible. You are required to operate an AH-1 which has bad controls, shoot at for tiny points on a building to disable the security while at the same time fighting off enemy AH-1's. Three hits and it's game over, you need to start from the ground again.

As I recall, the only place that the final boss of Fire Warrior is invulnerable is his head.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Duriel from Diablo II.

My whole meta for Acts I and II is how to beat Duriel. I ground my way to cLvl 6 in that game before I even finished the first quest just to make sure I was ready and in the sub-cLvl20's before I hit Duriel. Managed to do it with a Sorc and Paladin so far. The Sorc wasn't easy... she's so flimsy. Thank goodness for mid-level Ice and Fire spells...

I don't believe I've ever failed to kill the boss in Fire Warrior... I recall it being terrifically easy, although I only played through on medium.

Overall, that game had some great bosses.

The three-floating-heads boss in DMC2... he needed so many item uses to beat, and they became progressively more expensive, that by the time I was playing though in the final difficulty unlock, it took me half a day to beat. I have to say that game had the absolute best difficulty mode variety.
The tyrannosaurus in Turok (original) took me even longer, but I was quite young.

Bongo Bongo in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

So. Much. Health.

He's invisible.

He does scary amounts of damage.

He's actually harder to beat than Ganondorf.

If I rember right the last boss in lost planet was also rather easy to beat.

Same can be said of the big bad in Fable 2.

Proxy on the hardest difficulty in the Force Unleashed.

I believe I honostly used ever swear known to man and possibly alien.

The female robot thingy in DoA 3 was blinking annoying.

Seth in Street Fighter IV can be equally annoying if not more so.

Other than beat em ups though, where it often feels like the computer is cheating you (just due to the speed they can get off moves.)
The only other times I remember being really frustrated was over one of two of the Final Fantasy VII bosses.

Some in WoW can be annoying as well, but gear and learning their patterns make them not hard at all after a while.
Although on saying that the boss of Tempest Keep, Kaelthelas (bad spelling?) is still bloody hard even when you have 80's in the party if not everyone knows how to fight him.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Other than beat em ups though, where it often feels like the computer is cheating you (just due to the speed they can get off moves.)

Haha. Ever played any of SNK's beat'em'ups? Their bosses are so infamous that they coined the term "SNK Boss Syndrome".

Normal moves that fill the whole screen -
Heavily damaging special moves with insane priority -
Super meters that charge rapidly -
Super combos that deal 50-80% damage -

To make things worse, some of them didn't even have kneeling animations, meaning you didn't know if they'd go high or low. Ridiculous. God Rugal from the King of Fighters series is one of the worst offenders.

Fontaine in Bioshock.

Seriously, what the hell. You sneeze on him and he takes damage.

The orange cyclops in MegaMan 1.
I never could beat that guy.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:The female robot thingy in DoA 3 was blinking annoying.

Seth in Street Fighter IV can be equally annoying if not more so.

Other than beat em ups though, where it often feels like the computer is cheating you (just due to the speed they can get off moves.)
The only other times I remember being really frustrated was over one of two of the Final Fantasy VII bosses.

Some in WoW can be annoying as well, but gear and learning their patterns make them not hard at all after a while.
Although on saying that the boss of Tempest Keep, Kaelthelas (bad spelling?) is still bloody hard even when you have 80's in the party if not everyone knows how to fight him.

Two things:

First, Nice avatar I cant stop looking at it...

Two, Alpha-152 from DoA can burn in hell for all eternity with her brother Seth from Street Fighter IV.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:Duriel from Diablo II.

My whole meta for Acts I and II is how to beat Duriel. I ground my way to cLvl 6 in that game before I even finished the first quest just to make sure I was ready and in the sub-cLvl20's before I hit Duriel. Managed to do it with a Sorc and Paladin so far. The Sorc wasn't easy... she's so flimsy. Thank goodness for mid-level Ice and Fire spells...

I actually found him easier with my Sorceress than my Barbarian. Course, with my Sorceress I knew about /players8 and all the other little tricks in the game, courtesy of the D2 forum Single Player Community. I think the fact my Sorc wasn't in the Frost Aura helped. But yeah, he's an utter bastard.

The final boss of Genji, the first time you play through it, is also a git. I can't quite remember why, as it's a while since I played it, but I seem to remember losing a whole load of health to one hit.

The last boss on the wierd RPG/RTS thingy mode in Soul Calibur 3 had me swearing at the screen, coming close to putting a contoller through the telly and generally being a surly whinebag for a good three weeks, probably closer to a month. Good grief that guy was fething hard to kill. Got him in the end though, I'm surprised the whole street didn't hear my yell of triumph.

Dragonlover

suikoden 2- luca blight....you have to fight him with 3 different parties of characters, and then a solo fight with your main character, and if you lost the 3rd or 4th fight you got to start over.

final fantasy x- final area bosses were a letdown......actual final boss took me something like 3 turns to kill